Carnival Cruise Line has cancelled its first sailings out of Florida since being docked due to the COVID-19 pandemic back at least another month, with the cruise line indicating yesterday that it will have to determine at a later date whether its December sailings will take place.
Those first cruises were scheduled to take place on November 1, one day after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) no-sail order would have ended.
“Following the U.S. Centers for Disease Control’s decision to extend its no-sail order for cruise operations until Oct. 31, Carnival cancelled all but PortMiami and Port Canaveral cruises for the rest of the year. It has now determined that November 2020 operations will not be feasible,” the cruise line noted in a statement on its website yesterday.
“Carnival continues to work on protocols and procedures that would allow for the resumption of cruise operations, with a gradual, phased-in approach, designating Miami and Port Canaveral as the first two homeports for embarkations. Cruises currently scheduled for December from those two homeports remain in place for the time being while Carnival evaluates options.”
The announcement comes three weeks after Carnival and other cruise lines announced more cancellations, some into the first quarter of 2021.
Still Royal Caribbean International, Norwegian Cruise Line and MSC Cruises maintained their intention to resume sailings and operations in November.
Last week, MSC Cruises revealed that it plans to cruise to The Bahamas in both November and December, with scheduled stops to Nassau and its private island Ocean Cay.
Economic analysts have said The Bahamas will benefit significantly from the cruise industry when it rebounds since Carnival Cruise Line, MSC and Norwegian Cruise Line all have private islands in The Bahamas.
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